The International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences is a biennial conference discussing topics of heraldic and genealogical interest. The Congress brings together scholars and other interested persons from all the nations of Europe and from many countries around the world. The first Congress was held in Barcelona in 1929; at the second Congress, held in 1953, it was decided that future meetings would be held every two years (there have been two exceptions).
The main themes of the Congresses have changed greatly over the years, and some disciplines have ceased to form any part of the Congresses' study. Abandoned subjects include sphragistics and iconography, which were dealt with at Paris, and vexillology, which was to have been one of the themes at Congresses after Bern. Genetics, which had been a subject of discussion at Stockholm in 1960, did not reappear until the Ottawa Congress of 1996. Chivalric orders were another discarded subject, despite featuring in the congresses held at Rome/Naples, Madrid, Stockholm and Edinburgh, as well as in a few papers presented at Madrid in 1982.[2]
List of congresses
Over the years the meeting have been held in different cities:[2][3]
Logo of the 34th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Madrid, Spain
Logo of the 35th congress, combining the arms of Clare College, Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society
Logo of the 36th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Boston, USA
References
^"Genealogica & Heraldica | University of Ottawa Press". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2011-06-06. ISBN978-0-7766-0472-5 Boudreau,Claire.Vachon,Auguste.Cogné,Daniel."Genealogica & Heraldica .Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Genealogical and heraldic Sciences in Ottawa from August 18 to 23,1996 .Message from his Excellency the Right Honourable Roméo LeBlanc, Governor of Canada, Patron of the 22nd Congress". p. 21
^ ab"History". The International Commission for Orders of Chivalry. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
^Achen, S. T. (1982). Genealogica and Heraldica: Report of the 14th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Copenhagen, 25-29 August 1980. ISBN8712235288.
^Floyd, J. D.; Burnett, C. J. (2006). Genealogica et heraldica:proceedings of the XXVII International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, St. Andrews, 21-26 August, 2006. ISBN9780952525875.
^"The Quebec Congress"(PDF). The Heraldry Gazette. Guildford, England: The Heraldry Society: 8. 2 December 2008. ISSN0437-2980. Archived from the original(PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2012. XVIII Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences held in Quebec from 23–27 June 2008. The congress was entitled 'The Meeting of Two Worlds: Quest or Conquest
^"Court Activity 2010". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2012. Ormond Pursuivant attended the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences held in Stuttgart in September
^Heimbach, Harald. "Identity in Genealogy and Heraldry". XXIX. Internationaler Kongreß der Genealogischen und Heraldischen Wissenschaften. PRO HERALDICA - Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft für Heraldik und Genealogie mbH. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
^"Frontiers in Genealogy and Heraldry". XXXth International Congress for genealogical and heraldic Sciences. The Hague, Netherlands: Centraal Bureau Voor Genealogie. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.